[78-L] Col Bogey, was Oompah....

[Mike Harkin]

Google,Hitler has only got one ball - lots of good hits.  Whilst on the subject, I'm looking for an extremely feelthy parody of the hors







Mike in Plovdiv
--- On Tue, 1/24/12, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Oompah question (sort of)
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 5:18 PM
> A dirty phrase is like a
> melody......I'm still looking for the feelthy lyrics 
> to Colonel Bogey (BS..was all the band could play). And the
> joke whose 
> punchline is "Not tonight, Josephine".
> 
> My CBC producers and I spent ages on the telephone and
> researching elsewhere, 
> trying to find the source of "There's a town in France" when
> Peter Schickele 
> quoted it in one of his pastiche works. It seems to date
> from a pre-1900 
> World's Fair and the snake charmer or can shaker or
> something like that. No, 
> not from Saint-Saens' Bacchanale.
> 
> dl
> 
> On 1/24/2012 12:13 PM, Julian Vein wrote:
> > I was playing one of those Gene Ammons Prestige jam
> sessions. Ammons
> > quotes the phrase I know as  "Oompah, oompah,
> stick it up your jumper",
> > as does Jackie McLean who follows him. Does this phrase
> (like "There's a
> > town in France") have a specfic melody associated with
> it?
> >
> >
> >        Julian Vein
> >
> >
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